2nd Annual MEQG Math Fights Pre-Finals Questions

Prepared by: Engr. Isaiah James Maling

1. How many positive integers x have the property that 18 is the remainder when 2018 is divided by x?
Answer: 13
2. What is the remainder when 2^3 x 4^5 x 6^7 x 8^10 is divided by 13?
Answer: 12
3. If 3cosx = 4sinx, what is the numerical value of 25sin2x?
Answer: 24
4. What is the coefficient of the term containing a^2 b^2 cd in the expansion ( ) ?
Answer: 180
5. A circle is inscribed in a rhombus whose diagonals are 7.5 cm and 10 cm. What is the value of the diameter
of the circle?
Answer: 6cm
6. Three friends Isaiah, James and Catriona are in a race. The odds that Isaiah will win are 7 to 5, and the
odds that James will win are 1 to 3. What are the odds in favor of Catriona?
Answer: 1 to 5
7. Find the remainder when x^8 – 2x is divided by x^2 – 3x + 2.
Answer: 253x - 254
8. Three regular polygons fit exactly together around a point on a plane surface. One is a square and the other
is a dodecagon. How many sides does the third polygon have?
Answer: 6
9. What is the vertex of the graph of y = (x - 2017)(x-2025)?
Answer: (2021, -16)
10. Catriona has 10 marbles of different colors, including one red, one green and one blue marble. In how many
ways can she choose 4 marbles if exactly one of the chosen marbles is red, green or blue?
Answer: 105 ways
11. A certain quadratic function has its product of roots equal to the sum of its roots. Given that f(3) = 39 and
f(4) = 66, what are the roots of the function?
Answer: √
12. The 3 altitudes of a triangle have lengths 2/9, 1/5 and 2/17. What is the area of the triangle in square units?
Answer: 1/36
13. IJ and Catriona are painting a room. Catriona paints half the room red. IJ paints half of the unpainted area
blue. Catriona paints half of the unpainted area red, and so on. If this process continues infinitely, what
fraction of the room will be painted blue?
Answer: 1/3
14. ABC is a triangle and DE is a line connecting the midpoints of sides AB and AC such that D is between A
and B and E is between A and C. If DE = 2x + 4, BC = 20, AE = 5x and EC = 4y - 1. What is the value of x +
y?
Answer: 7
15. What is the largest integer x such that x^3 + 1000 is divisible by x + 8?
 Answer: 480
16. What is the 10th term of the series 5/4, 17/8, 37/16...?
Answer: 401/2048
17. Find the measure of the complement of an angle whose supplement exceeds 6 times its complement by
20˚.
Answer: 14 degrees

2nd Annual MEQG Math Fights Finals Questions

1. How many positive divisors of (2^11)(3^7)(5^5)(7^3)(11^2) are perfect cube numbers?

Answer: 48
2. If today is Friday, what day of the week will it be 2019^2018 days from now?
Answer: Sunday
3. If sin x = tan x and x lies on the interval [0, 2pi], how many possible values of x are there?
Answer: 3
4. How many positive integers satisfy |2x - 17| = 17 - 2x?
Answer: 8
5. IJ, Catriona and James take turns flipping a coin in their respective order. The first one to flip head wins.
What is the probability that Catriona will win?
Answer: 2/7
6. Find the sum of the infinite series 1 + √2 + 2 + 2√2 + …
Answer: NO SUM
7. The radius of a circle is x + 6 and the diameter is 3x + 5. Find its area (in square units) in terms of pi.
Answer: 169pi
8. The triangle with vertices (-3, 4), (x, 3) and (5, 7) has an area of 11.5 sq. units. Find the positive value of x.
Answer: 2
9. A triangle has sides which measures 13, 14 and 15. Find the length of the altitude to the side 14 units.
Answer: 12 units
10. In how many ways can 7 people sit in a row if two of them should have at least 2 people between them?
Answer: 2400
11. What is the sum of all distinct values of x that satisfies (x^2 + x)^2 - 8(x^2 + x) + 12 = 0?
Answer: -2
12. What is the area of an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle of radius 6 cm?
Answer: √
13. The Houses on Catriona Street are numbered consecutively from 1 to 890. How many digits are needed to
form all the house numbers?
Answer: 2562
14. How many trailing zeroes are there in 2018!/200!?
Answer: 453
15. What is the sum of the digits when 3^2 x 2^2018 x 5^2015 is expanded?
Answer: 9
16. A triangle has 2 sides measuring 2018 cm and 2025 cm. How many triangles are possible with the 2 sides
given such that the 3rd side is also having an integral length?
Answer: 4035
17. Find the sum of the infinite series 1/3 + 2/9 + 3/27 + ...
Answer: ¾
18. What is the largest positive integer value of n so that n^20000 < 4^50000?
Answer: 31
19. Find the value of 2a + b if the roots of x^2- ax + b = 0 are the cubes of the roots of x^2 + x + 2 = 0
Answer: 18
20. How many integral factors does 504 have?
Answer: 48
21. What is the remainder when y^4 – 2y^3 + y^2 + y is divided by y^2 + 1?
Answer: 3y
22. A 4-digit number is created by using each of the digits 3, 4, 5 and 8 exactly once. What is the probability that
the number is not divisible by 4?
Answer: 5/6
23. On a shelf, 3/8 of the books are geometry, 1/3 of the remaining books are algebra, and the rest are
statistics. If there are 40 statistics books, find the total number of books on the shelf.
Answer: 96
24. If r and s are the roots of x^2 - 4x + 2sqrt3 = 0. Find 1/r^2 + 1/s^2.
√
Answer:
25. Two tangents from a circle form an angle of 69 degrees. What is the measurement of the larger intercepted
arc?
Answer: 246 degrees
26. Initially Alex, Betty, and Charlie had a total of 444 peanuts. Charlie had the most peanuts, and Alex had the
least. The three numbers of peanuts that each person had formed a geometric progression. Alex eats 5 of
his peanuts, Betty eats 9 of her peanuts, and Charlie eats 25 of his peanuts. Now the three numbers of
peanuts each person has forms an arithmetic progression. Find the number of peanuts Alex had initially.
Answer: 108
27. Determine the value of a - b which make ab, a/b and a − b equal to each other.
Answer: ½
28. Six bippitties equal three bops, and six bops equal two boos. How many boos are there in one bippitty, one
bop and two boos? Express your answer as a mixed number.
Answer: 2 1/2
29. A contractor estimated that a project will be finished by his crew in 60 days. After the crew worked for 40
days, 38 workers stopped working. If the remaining workers will continue at the same rate, they will be
delayed by 5 days. How many workers are there in the original crew?
Answer: 190 workers
30. One angle of an isosceles triangle is 50 degrees. The possible measures of the other angles are x, y and z
degrees. Find the numerical value of x + y + z (in degrees).
Answer: 195
31. Find the equation (in the form ax + by + c = 0 with positive integer a) of the line tangent to the circle x^2+
y^2+ 2x-2y=23 at the point (3, -2).
Answer: 4x – 3y – 18 = 0
32. If x is the smallest positive number that leaves a remainder of 5 when divided by 7 and leaves a remainder
of 3 when divided by 5, what is the remainder when x! is divided by 37?
Answer: 31
33. The 4 distinct zeros of P(x) = 2x^4 + Ax^2 + 450 have absolute values which are prime. Find A.
Answer: -68
34. From Catriona's point of view, the angle of elevation of the top a tower is 60 degrees. She then do her
famous "LAVA WALK" and moves 40 m away from the tower. The angle of elevation is now 45 degrees.
Give the exact height of the tower in meters.
Answer: 60 + 20√ meters
35. Find a + b if x + 1 and x - 3 are factors of x^4 - ax^3 + bx^2 + ax + 6.
Answer: -6
36. Solve for all values of x: x^(7/3) - 4x^(1/3) = 7x^(4/3).
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Answer: